I'm sure no shark thriller will ever top the classic JAWS, but I still enjoy seeing that the sub-genre is having a theatrical resurgence. In the last four years, sharks having chomped people on the big screen in movies like THE SHALLOWS, 47 METERS DOWN, THE MEG, and 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED. If all goes well, maybe director Gaby Dellal's SOMETHING IN THE WATER will be the next shark movie to open wide.
Noel Clarke and Jason Maza of Unstoppable are producing SOMETHING IN THE WATER alongside Studiocanal UK CEO Nicola Shindler, and Studiocanal will be presenting the project at the European Film Market.
Author Cat Clarke has written the screenplay, which centers on
five female friends who come together to celebrate a wedding in a beautiful, remote location. One day before the wedding, as a treat, they go on a boat trip which descends into the stuff of nightmares.
Shindler had this to say about the project:
As well as being a brilliant thriller and a really good shark movie, this is a film about female friendship and there is a brilliant warmth and humor to the relationships between the women. The project attracted me because it’s as much a character piece as a thriller. The bond the women form before the shark attack is very important and is a real point of difference. That said, buyers are going to be very impressed by Cat Clarke’s concepts around the sharks themselves."
So it sort of sounds like BRIDESMAIDS with sharks. I can go for that. I'm very intrigued to find out what that comment about the "concepts around the sharks" means.
Studiocanal is planning to get SOMETHING IN THE WATER into production by the end of the year. Dellal is currently working on assembling the cast. The group of five women at the center of the story consists of five British characters and one American.